[Dixielandjazz] Tony Scott in his SOFTER days

[Stephen G Barbone]

>  "ROBERT R. CALDER" <serapion at btinternet.com> wrote (polite snip)
>
> Sandy made clear that he was saying one thing and one thing only,  
> and making no comment whatever about Tony Scott as a musician, but  
> Scott played the LOUDEST repeat LOUDEST of any clarinetist he had  
> ever encountered.
> My friend's eyebrows went up? -- as he recalled, Sandy himself could  
> play very very loud.

Dear Robert:

In his younger days (the 1950s and early 1960s) Scott played quite  
softly. Here are a few examples:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwEhYRXjuOM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp1J8aYzMno&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAfLdCavTXA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPsE5mNpXqk

During his soft years, I tried mightily to copy that soft fluid sound  
but never quite could. Instead I got closer to the hard sound of Buddy  
DeFranco, another idol of mine.

He was quite the experimenter. During that time he also played some  
harsh and very loud bebop as well as some loud middle eastern music  
which was the rage in NYC for a short time. IMO, he could do just  
about anything he wanted soft or loud over the entire range of the  
clarinet.

Cheers
Steve Barbone
www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband